Murderbot 1x04

[sholio]

New episode is out already! At half an hour they are very bite-sized.


I think that might've been my favorite episode so far (despite the lack of Gurathin) - so tense and fast-paced and fun! I loved everyone around Murderbot getting to be active and brave this time. I don't know what happens in this part of the books - that is, technically I read the first book ages ago, but I only remember the broadest strokes of the plot, and I'm not sure how closely we're following it here. So I wasn't sure how they were going to end up dealing with the situation, either the "Murderbot taken over by literal killware" or the "killer SecUnit after them" parts of it. Arada and Pin-Lee landing the hopper on the enemy SecUnit was very satisfying.

Also completely fried SecUnit hallucinating itself into Sanctuary Moon! I like how the show handles Murderbot's use of TV as its means of interfacing with the emotional/social aspects of its world.

And the intro scene with the SecUnit factory! A++ deadpan black humor with the factory workers and Murderbot's casually unnerving voiceover.

I continue to have a good time. Someone on Tumblr described the show as an old-fashioned adventure serial, and it does feel like that. I don't generally feel like I have a lot to say about the episodes. They're just light and entertaining and fun.

Comments

[heavenscalyx]

If this was at the other team’s base where everyone was slaughtered, in the book Mensah saves Murderbot by putting a mining tool through the enemy-controlled secunit.

[sholio]

That does happen, and is awesome! The other secunit still comes after them after that, though, and in this version the rest of the team comes to help and finishes it off before it can go ahead and kill them. (FWIW, Murderbot is scrambled enough at that point that if we were in pure Murderbot narration instead of the omniscient TV show POV, it might not have realized anything else happened after the mining tool incident.)

[oracne]

This - I was wondering the same thing!

[tippergreen]

They stretched out what was a fairly straightforward action scene in the book and made it so much funnier! I loved it!

I have one complaint, it was SO SHORT! I wish they were dropping two eps a week. My heart can't take it!

[sholio]

I KNOW, I want more than half an hour a week! It's so fun!

[leesa_perrie]

I've enjoyed ep 3 and 4 a great deal!! The humour is starting to kick in, and I love the characters more and more!! Arada and Pin-Lee's solution to the enemy SecUnit was fun, and I think Ratthi is very endearing!! :D